Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
LABOR AND LAsoRERs.

THERE are $1,000 colored Knights of La
bor
In Dakota the Knights and farmers COM
bine.
BARBED wire is in great demand all over
the West
THE Kentucky Knights viii form State
Assembly.
SURVEYS have been madc for large glass
works at Royersford, Pa.
WITHIN month 1,4OO Knights of Labor
charters have been issued.
STEAM and hydraulic pumps OF all sizes
are in great demand in the South.
THERE are three successful cooperative
concerns in New York with a capital Of
100000.
A MOVEMENT is to be made to advance the
wages of women engaged in shirt-making
in New York.
A GREAT deal of new textile machinery is
being forwarded from factories to mills
East and South.
A GOOD many Northern coal miners are
going South in the hopes of obtaining stead
Ter employment.
THE South Baltimore Car Company will
erect one hundred houses with corrugated
roofs for its employees.
GREAT coal developments are being made
On the Pacific coast, and large vessel con-
tracts have been given out.
THE slate operators Of Slatington, Pa,
are discharging those of their employees
who are members of K. IF L.
THE fiiut-glass factories and the chimney
glass b. uses at Pitts burgh, Pa, have start
ed up, giving employment to 600 men.
THEEE-FoURTHs Of the depositors in New
England savings banks are wage-workers,
and their average deposits are $3.50 per
year.
VALUABLE coal mines are being opened in
Virginia. One property shows four worka-
BILE veins ag 5regating thickness of twen-
ty-seven feet
TIE glass factories which have been idle
Tor some weeks under the hot-yvcather rule
are aga lighting up their furnaces and re
suming work.
A EUROPEAN conference is soon to be held
to take some action to protect British trade
from foreign competition. The British
manufacturers have been working this
matter up for twelve months.
The window glass trade is quiet for the
time being and orders are plentiful Man.
ufacturers report fair stocks but do not saw
they are excessive, and the prospects of the
trade arc generally pretty fair
The recent plasterers' convention in st.
Louis changed its name of National to Inter.
national. Hugh ]. Donnelly, of Philadel-
phia was elected president, and Joseph Nc
Donald, of st. Louis, secretary.
ALL the indications in the boot and shoe
trade show that the aggregate traffic will
be of unprecedented magnitude In Worces-
ter County, Mass, the boot and shoe deficit
up to June amounted to 1O0, 200 cases.
For every S13 worth of steel and cutlery
shipped from Sheffield to the States during
the second quarter of last year SOB worth
was shipped during the same time this year.
The Scotch steel works have orders for
three months ahead.
GENERAL SECRETARY p J. MCCLURE, of the
Carpenters Brotherhood, is at work COM
pllmg tabulated statement of the number
OF union and non-union men involved. the
cost OF each strike and the benefits and re-
suits achieved, and of all movements in
which subordinate unions engaged during
the spring.
ENGLIsH workmen are being supplanted
In nearly all trades by foreigners. The
London bakeries are in the hands of the
Germans, tho shoe-making is done by the
Dutch. The French and Swiss are forcing
out the English walters. Italians are ma
nlpulating the chop houses, but the Ameri-
cans seem to be satisfied with their own
country.
A CALCULATION recently made from au
thentlc lists of manufacturers showed that
the Central West contains thirtv-three ner
cent OF the blast furnaces and rolling mills
OF the United States, twenty-nine per cent.
OF the wood working establishments, twen.
ty-seven per cent of the Woodworking es
adjustments, twenty-eight per cent Of the
agricGl ltural implement manufactures, and
thirty-two per cent. of the steam users,